A Dictionary of American Politics: Comprising Accounts of Political Parties, Measures and Men, and Explanations of the Constitution, Divisions and Practical Workings of the Government, Together with Political Phrases, Familiar Names of Persons and Places, Noteworthy Sayings, Party Platforms, Etc., EtcA.L. Burt, 1907 - 592 pages |
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... means to be employed in amend- ing that instrument . By the same article the Consti- tution was made unamendable prior to 1808 on certain points , as follows : So as to prohibit immigration as ex- isting in 1787 , or so as to permit the ...
... means to be employed in amend- ing that instrument . By the same article the Consti- tution was made unamendable prior to 1808 on certain points , as follows : So as to prohibit immigration as ex- isting in 1787 , or so as to permit the ...
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... Means , but in that year the Committee on Appropriations was formed . By a rule of the House and Senate , appropriation bills must include only items au- thorized by existing laws , and they cannot contain provis- ions changing existing ...
... Means , but in that year the Committee on Appropriations was formed . By a rule of the House and Senate , appropriation bills must include only items au- thorized by existing laws , and they cannot contain provis- ions changing existing ...
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... means to spring out suddenly , and in political parlance it means to leave a political party when it is no longer deemed safe or to one's interest to remain with it . Those that leave a party under these circumstances are called bolters ...
... means to spring out suddenly , and in political parlance it means to leave a political party when it is no longer deemed safe or to one's interest to remain with it . Those that leave a party under these circumstances are called bolters ...
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... means employed , they will yet indirect- ly give it their support . The organization when in the hands of professional politicians of the above type is known as " Machine . " Brave . ( See Tammany . ) Bread Riots in 1837. Owing to the ...
... means employed , they will yet indirect- ly give it their support . The organization when in the hands of professional politicians of the above type is known as " Machine . " Brave . ( See Tammany . ) Bread Riots in 1837. Owing to the ...
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... means of procuring what was desired . The story was told in the army , and the reply to a demand for any article was invariably advice to ask " Brother Jonathan . " The phrase became proverbial and has lived to the present time . Brown ...
... means of procuring what was desired . The story was told in the army , and the reply to a demand for any article was invariably advice to ask " Brother Jonathan . " The phrase became proverbial and has lived to the present time . Brown ...
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Page 464 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness, that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it, accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity...
Page 440 - State in controversy, and a day assigned for the appearance of the parties by their lawful agents, who shall then be directed to appoint, by joint consent, commissioners or judges to constitute a court for hearing and determining the matter in question; but if they cannot agree, congress shall name three persons out of each of the United States, and from the list of such persons each party shall alternately strike out one, the petitioners beginning, until the number shall be reduced to thirteen;...
Page 441 - All controversies concerning the private right of soil, claimed under different grants of two or more states, whose jurisdictions, as they may respect such lands, and the states which passed such grants, are adjusted, the said grants or either of them being at the same time claimed to have originated antecedent to such settlement of jurisdiction, shall, on the petition of either party to the Congress of the United States, be finally determined as near as may be in the same manner as is before prescribed...
Page 468 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Page 442 - ... clothe, arm, and equip as many of such extra number as they judge can be safely spared, and the officers and men so clothed, armed, and equipped shall march to the place appointed, and within the time agreed on by the United States, in Congress assembled.
Page 438 - No State shall lay any imposts or duties which may interfere with any stipulations in treaties entered into by the United States in Congress assembled, with any king, prince, or state, in pursuance of any treaties already proposed by Congress to the courts of France and Spain.
Page 440 - The United States in congress assembled shall also be the last resort on appeal in all disputes and differences now subsisting, or that hereafter may arise between two or more states, concerning boundary, jurisdiction, or any other cause whatever ; which authority shall always be exercised in the manner following.
Page 466 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Page 467 - Let me .now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.
Page 443 - And the Articles of this confederation shall be inviolably observed by every state, and the union shall be perpetual; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them; unless such alteration be agreed to in a congress of the united states, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every state.